Catch Rate

[Guest FOXDOG]

If we are just talking lamping rabbits what would you expect a good dogs catch rate to be? Lets say out of then 10? 20,30 how many would you expect the dog to catch And lets say the rabbits are not very lamp shy but not all squatters I have only one rabbit dog and I would be dissapointed if he missed more than 3 out of 10 runs but most of the time he will 9/10 or 10/10 Now this isnt a big thing because it when you start going past these numbers that dogs start to miss more so lets say out of 20 how many would you expect them to miss? I know all dogs have bad nights but when they are running well.. I hope to hear everybodys thoughts and past experiences

[Simoman 110]

Surely this would depend on conditions, how far out they are feeding and perhaps most importantly the terrain? I'm sure this would alter the success ratio somewhat?

[Sorley x 32]

There really are a lot of variables.

 

I take it we are onlyy taking runs/slips that we are pretty sure the dogs gonna get.

[Bosun11 537]

Surely this would depend on conditions, how far out they are feeding and perhaps most importantly the terrain? I'm sure this would alter the success ratio somewhat?

 

 

[Guest reload]

Surely this would depend on conditions, how far out they are feeding and perhaps most importantly the terrain? I'm sure this would alter the success ratio somewhat?

 

Exactley, its impossible.

 

Last night I was on land heaving with rabbits, but most of it was on hills with banks and lychetts, a good dog would be pushed to catch many on there.

 

Two night earlier i was on a flat arable land, and we had 2 out of 3, and with my older dog probobly more.

 

It all depend on conditions.

[Guest joe ox]

Golf courses and fields with stone walls for instance the catch ratio will be completly different.

[tote 857]

There can't be a standard answer to your question Foxdog as there are that many

different situations that effect the catch rate

 

If your dog [in your words] can catch 9/10 or 10/10 most of the time I must take it

that you are not running him on a golf course as 5/10 would be a great catch rate

on a golf course.

 

How short is the slip? How far out are the rabbits? What are the ground conditions like?

How rough is the weather conditions? All of these and more have a part to play in the sport of lamping.

 

Also of course our dogs are not machines.I can remember lamping with one of my dogs last year.On five lamping trips he caught 6/6, 9/9, 5/5, 6/6, then 11/13 he missed the 8th rabbit on the last night so he had 33 in a row.He was in good form.

 

I went out with him 2 nights later and he ran like a pup you would have thought

he'd never lamped before I think he had 3 rabbits from 12 runs non of the runs were anymore difficult than usuall.At first I thought the dog must have been carrying an injury but he wasn't I couldn't find anything wrong with him.

 

A couple of nights later he was back to his usuall self and had 8 rabbits from 10 runs.

 

I have lamped with a few lads that talked their dogs up before we went out Far better imo to just get out there and let the dog perform to the best of their ability

rather than boasting that my dog will catch X amount of rabbits from X amount of runs.Far better to concentrate on enjoying your lamping and forget about numbers,I've yet to own a dog that can count now,that would be something.

[Leon 0]

As long as the dog is giving it his all and I am putting as much commitment into him as possible (it works both ways) I couldn't care how many he catches.

[doxhope 2]

Like to see a lamping dog consistanly take 9/10 or 10/10 on a golf course

Ive never been a one for counting the ones that got a way, pretty pointless really, But if over a full year you average out at having killed half of what you have slipped your dog on youve done well,

[skycat 6,174]

It also depends on whether you choose your runs wisely as well: some folks slip on anything regardless of how near to cover it is then wonder why the dog didn't catch. I only run catchable rabbits, or other stuff before the ban, so I would generally expect my dog to catch what it is slipped at as I don't see the point in slipping on no hopers.

[springfield 20]

Lamping around my area Cornwall,Alot of the fields meadows are small.so my dogs have to have a good concentration as the night goes on as they may not get another strike,If not caught on the first strike.Where in a bigger field they might be able to get another.I have been to ground that has never been lamped with my fathers 17lb race bred whippet and nailed 6 out of 7 runs straight off.Depends if you get some one who has been rushing there dog to lamp on the ground then the rabbits get shy.Just a shine from the gate on the windyest of nights and there gone.Anyone who knows Cornwall try around Blackwater nr Redruth and you will see I mean.

[TOMO 28,263]

20 out of 20 for me all the time.

[TOMO 28,263]

yeh i herd that about the rabbits in cornwall being very easy to catch. like on the warrener films, they have these stone wals with hedges on top. the rabbits just bounce of the bottom of the bank.

 

a big bag can easily be rattled up down there TOMO

[Guest mush]

yeh i herd that about the rabbits in cornwall being very easy to catch. like on the warrener films, they have these stone wals with hedges on top. the rabbits just bounce of the bottom of the bank.

 

a big bag can easily be rattled up down there TOMO

LOL there covered in brambles and blackthorn.

[snoopdog 1,256]

i like to slip a dog on a dot ... across a field down through a river up over a drystone wall into the field where the bunny is.. course round the field nail the bugger and then retrieve it back beats numbers everytime watching a course like that ...